OCHA evaluations serve the dual purpose of accountability for performance and results and learning to inform policy discussions and strategic decisions of OCHA’s senior management, as well as of other stakeholders. Individual evaluations inform on specific issues, activities or areas of work, with the aim of contributing to improved performance and organizational learning.
With the present report, however, OCHA aims to go beyond the individual accountability and learning of a single evaluation. The analysis here presented takes into account all of what has been achieved, discerned and learnt in each of the evaluations conducted in OCHA during 2010, and outlines those recurring issues and common themes identified as repeatedly affecting the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance.